Bibliograph

Forest dark, a novel, Nicole Krauss

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Label

Forest dark, a novel, Nicole Krauss

Language

eng

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Literary text for sound recordings

fiction

Main title

Forest dark

Medium

sound recording

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Oclc number

972383414

Responsibility statement

Nicole Krauss

Sub title

a novel

Summary

Jules Epstein, a man whose drive, avidity, and outsized personality have, for sixty-eight years, been a force to be reckoned with, is undergoing a metamorphosis. In the wake of his parents' deaths, his divorce from his wife of more than thirty years, and his retirement from the New York legal firm where he was a partner, he's felt an irresistible need to give away his possessions, alarming his children and perplexing the executor of his estate. With the last of his wealth, he travels to Israel, with a nebulous plan to do something to honor his parents. In Tel Aviv, he is sidetracked by a charismatic American rabbi planning a reunion for the descendants of King David who insists that Epstein is part of that storied dynastic line. He also meets the rabbi's beautiful daughter who convinces Epstein to become involved in her own project, a film about the life of David being shot in the desert, with life-changing consequences

Target audience

adult

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